Tuesday, 13 September 2011

One of the main features in Sharepoint 2010 is the Document Id. This field is a UNIQUE id that is setup up for every single document. This Document id is essential for Document Management Systems, Why? because allows you to find a document that lives with thousands in the same house. This is exactly the same than a digital print.

You can setup the system to do that automatically for you, OR you can build your own solution to do it. As usual, if you need a sophisticated Document Id generation, this is your article.

Let’s go to do it step by step.

1- You need to activate the Document ID Service, go to Site Collection Administration and click on Site Collection Features.

11- Deploy and Enjoy!. To test it just upload a document and check the properties.

Conclusion: The Document Id will be one of the cores of your solution if you planning to deliver a DMS, so be aware you can for example join Document Id for your current systems and auto generate them for you with this class. Possibilities are endless.

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